incurious

Adjective

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Adjective (1)

  1. showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity“strangely incurious about the cause of the political upheaval surrounding them”Opposite curiousSimilar uninterested, uninquiringSee also uninterested
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

In·cu′ri·ous adjective

Origin: L. incuriosus: cf. F. incurieux. See In- not, and Curious.

Not curious or inquisitive; without care for or interest in; inattentive; careless; negligent; heedless.

Carelessnesses and incurious deportments toward their children.— Taylor, Jeremy

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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